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please stop telling me what I need to do.

My mom is in the hospital because she started having symptons of a stroke but they now think that it may have just been a complicated migraine? I guess they have the same symptons as a stroke. Anyways, She went in last night, I called out of work then and today so I could take care of everything around the house and my younger sister (13).

Today I have gotten 3 phone calls from 3 different people telling me that I need to make sure that the couch my mom has been trying to get rid of is gone, the house is cleaned and my mom isn't stressed. I am already aware and I am already working on not only cleaning the house, getting food in the house for when my mom gets home (tonight or tomorrow morning), visiting her, taking care of my kids and my sister, and trying to figure out how I am going to get the couch out of the house by myself because all the people that called to remind that it needs to be out couldn't/didn't offer help.

I have 3 sisters one is 4 hours away, the other is married and has to work and the othe`r is only 13 and I can't expect much help from her.

I yelled at my older sister who lives 4 hours away because she was one of the people who called me to tell me everything I needed to do, as if I didn't already know. I am doing my mom's laundry (now, mind you I am not complaining about doing these things for my mom, I am complaining about no one having faith in me to take care of her and everything else), doing the dishes, cleaning the kitchen and living room. That is all really hard to get done when you still have to take care of your own 2 kids and go to the store and get dinner and milk and eggs and all the basics and I don't have a husband (single mom) or anyone I can depend on for help in this matter.

My parents are divorced and my dad (who was the first person to yell at me to clean the house and get rid of the couch) wont help at all. My only other guy friend is several states away because he is a marine. I have no one who will come over and help me clean or watch the kids. I mean I do have a friend who would do it if she could but her husband has to work and so she has to take care of her own three kids.

Why can't your 13 year old sister help you move the couch? My 15 year old sister has helped me move furniture out and around when she was 13.

Because she wont do it. I know how bad that sounds and it is. My mom has babied her because she has a severe anxiety disorder and so she doesn't do much of anything. She is home schooled and everything. The only good thing about the home schooling is that she is getting better but she is very disrespectful and spoiled and thinks she rules the house. I would rather move the couch alone then deal with her attitude.

It's nice that you're doing that for your mom.It's not nice that your family is being mean to you over doing shit for your mom who only had a headache?

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We thought it was a stroke. She lost sight, couldn't speak right and was getting all confused. We found out today that it was possible a "complicated migraine". I have never heard of this before but according to the neurologist some migraines can produce similar symptoms to a stroke. She came home today and she has to change her diet and sleeping habits and avoid stress or else she could end up back in the hospital.

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